Heterosexual Masculinity in Contemporary Vietnam

Privileges, Pleasures, and Protests

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2387983
AutoresPatrick Horton (0000-0002-0680-0039, Linköping University), Paul Horton (0000-0002-0916-7339), Helle Rydstrøm (0000-0003-0864-0873, Lund University, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume14
Fascículo5
Páginas542-564
Data de publicação2011-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMen and Masculinities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1097-184X • E-ISSN: 1552-6828
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1097184x11409362
OpenAlexW2111896696
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas55
Referências citadas38

By drawing on ethnographic data collected in two different settings in northern Vietnam, this article considers the ways in which heterosexual masculinity is configured by younger men. The intersection between heterosexuality and masculinity, the article argues, epitomizes a site of contestations between moral ideals, expectations about gendered support, and sexual pleasures disguised as protests. In introducing into a Southeast Asian context, the Latin American term machismo, understood as an expression of male-centered privileges and the ways in which they foster men's chauvinism against women (or other men), the article explores how local assumptions about the natural quintessential drive of male sexuality as well as a wife's obligations to comply with his sexual needs together provide men with morally legitimized explanations for the buying of various kinds of female sexual services

Chauvinism · Ethnography · Heterosexuality · Human sexuality · Masculinity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Law · North African History and Literature · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies